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Research Methods in Social Relations, 8th Edition, features a series of updates and revisions in its comprehensive introduction to current research methods in the social and behavioural sciences.

• Offers comprehensive coverage of a wide variety of traditional and topical research methods
• Addresses many newer research approaches such as propensity score matching, mixed methods designs, and confirmatory factor analysis
• Written to be accessible to a range of social and behavioural science disciplines, including public health, political science, sociology, and psychology
• Includes new chapters that engage readers in critical thinking about the processes involved in building sustainable partnerships in field and community settings
• The Companion website includes an array of resources for Instructors, including Test Banks, Power Point lecture slides, discussion questions and exercises
• This new edition is the much-anticipated follow-up to 2001’s seventh edition by Hoyle, Harris and Judd

Geoffrey Maruyama is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota, USA. His books include Basics of Structural Equation Modeling (1998) and Research in Educational Settings (with Stanley Deno, 1992). He is a former President and Secretary Treasurer of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI).

Carey S. Ryan is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA. She is co-author of Data Analysis: A Model Comparison Approach (2nd ed., 2009) with Charles M. Judd and Gary H. McClelland.